Remember back in January when the MSM was pretty excited about President Obama’s executive actions to combat gun violence. Here’s what I wrote at the time:

For the record, not one of the 23 “executive actions” issues by the president yesterday is an actual “executive order.” However, the White House did issue three “presidential memoranda” yesterday. [. . .]

The MSM, however, is using “executive order” as a replacement for “executive action,” which gives the reader the impression that the president has done more than he really has. The reality is President Obama hasn’t done much of anything. The headline “Obama To Fight Gun Industry with Three Presidential Memoranda” just doesn’t carry the same oomph as “23 Executive Orders.” Words matter, as the president has lectured previously.

And let’s look at all 23 of these actions and how many focused on mental health issues, which look to be at the center of yesterday’s shooting in D.C. by Aaron Alexis. Via the WSJ:

1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.

2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.

3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system

4. Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.

5. Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.

6. Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers.

23. Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health.

That’s 11 out of the 23 that specifically focus on what happened yesterday. Has there been anything done on any of these? Where’s the MSM adulation now? Does Vice President Biden, in charge of the president’s effort on guns, have any comment?

There are reports that Alexis had two prior arrests involving guns that should have triggered his numerous background checks, but did not. Updates to follow as we learn more about a) the background checks he passed and b) the actual charges in the two incidents.